Dragon Sightings

Many dragon-sighting have been reported in the past
decade, you will probably think these guys are just good enough
to go in a nut house but... in China they found a skull with horn
that has been mistakenly labeled as one of the rare tyrannosaur
with horn, also they found a mysterious carcass on a beach at
Framboise, N.S., in July, 1976, that appeared to be a sea-dragon.

DRAGONS AS SEA SERPENTS

Throughout history, water dragons have often been sighted,
with the most recent incidents dating back to the beginning of the twentieth
century.

The most scientifically reliable description is that of Peter
Karl van Esling, the director of The Hague Zoo, who gives an account of a water
dragon sighted during a voyage to collect marine species in the Atlantic in
1860:

We saw a gigantic reptile, bright blue and silver in colour.
He swam gracefully around the ship before the sailors' eyes, and submerged himself
without a splash. His eyes were enormous, with vertical pupils and an intelligent
expression. They seemed luminous, but this effect could be due to the reflection
from the setting sun.

His head was adorned with bright blue and green crests. Even
though he disappeared under water and did not reappear, he appeared to measure
some seven meters in length, and on his back they could make out something resembling
a crest or fins. It was serpent-like, but the sailor thought they saw legs and
claw.

They baptized him Megophias.

SEA-SERPENTS(WATER
DRAGONS)-EAST COAST

Sea-serpents seem to be a cosmopolitan breed. They share a
marked taste for fine weather, being rarely seen except in warm, sunny weather
and calm seas. They prefer to swim in warm ocean currents, spending the summer
months in the Northern Hemisphere and migrating in the winter to the Southern
Hemisphere.

A great number of sighting of sea-dragon more commonly known
as sea- serpent have been recorded; numbered among witnesses are such personages
as scientists, priest and bishops.

In an article he wrote in 1817, the French-American scientist
Rafinesque-Schmaltz wrote of a two hundred foot long sea-serpent seen by Mrs.
W. Lee, in 1805, near Cape Breton and Newfoundland. She stated: "Its
back was dark green and it stood in the water in flexuous hillocks and went
through it with impetuous noise."

The first recorded sighting in Canadian water was on July 15th,
1825, in Halifax Harbour. It was seen by several people from entirely separate
positions. They described it as having "a body as big as a tree trunk... The
animal had about eight coils or humps to its body and was about sixty feet long."

A similar creature was seen the next summer by William Warburton,
south of Newfoundland.

On May 15th, 1833, in Mahone Bay, forty miles west of Halifax,
three officers and two enlisted men of Her Majesty's Navy were relaxing on the
deck of a fishing boat when they sighted at a distance of one hundred and fifty
to two hundred yards:

. . . the head and the neck of some denizen of the deep, precisely
like those of a common snake, in the act of swimming, the head so far elevated
and thrown forward by the curve of the neck as to enable us to see the water
under and beyond it. The creature rapidly passed, leaving a regular wake, from
the commencement of which, to the forepart, which was out of water, we judged
its length to be about 80 feet; and this within rather than beyond the mark
. . .

It is most difficult to give correctly the dimensions of any
object in the water. The head of the creature we set down at about six feet
in length, and the portion of the neck which we saw, at the same; the extreme
length, as before stated, at between 80 and 100 feet. The neck in thickness
equaled the bole of a moderate-sized tree. The head and the neck of a dark brown
or nearly black colour, streaked with white in irregular streaks.

The five principal witnesses signed with their names, ranks, and
dates on which they received their commissions:

W. SULLIVAN, Captain, Rifle Brigade, June 21, 1831.

A. MACLACHLAN, Lieutenant, ditto, August 5, 1824.

C. P. MALCOLM, Ensign, ditto, August 13, 1830.

B. O'NEAL LYSTER, Lieut. Artillery, June 7, 1816.

HENRY INCE, Ordnance Storekeeper at Halifax.

SEA-SERPENTS(WATER
DRAGON)-WEST COAST

As in the case of other Canadian monsters, sea-serpent (or
we will call it Sea-Dragon) sightings were often not reported until years later,
when, after learning of another report, previous witnesses were prompted to
come forward and tell their own stories. Fear of being laughed at is a very
strong deterrent to people speaking out.

After learning of Major Langley's report, Mr. F. W. Kemp, an
officer of the Provincial Archives, told of his experience the year before.
This is his report, as given to the Victoria Daily Times:

On August 10, 1932, I was with my wife and son on Chatham Island
in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. My wife called my attention to a mysterious something
coming through the channel between Strong Tide Island and Chatham Island. Imagine
my astonishment on observing a huge creature with head out of the water traveling
about four miles per hour against the tide. Even at that speed a considerable
wash was thrown on the rocks, which gave me the impression that it was more
reptile than serpent to make so much displacement.

The channel at this point is about 500 yard wide. Swimming
to the steep rocks of the Island opposite, the creature shot its head out of
water on the rock, and moving its head from side to side, appeared to taking
its bearings. Then fold after fold its body came to surface. Towards the tail
it appeared serrated with something moving flail-like at the extreme end. The
movements were like those of a crocodile. Around the head appeared a sort of
mane, which drifted round the body like kelp.

The Thing's presence seemed to change the whole landscape,
which make it difficult to describe my experiences. It did not seem to belong
to the present scheme of things, but rather to the Long Ago when the world was
young. The position it held on the rock was momentary. My wife and sixteen-year-old
son ran to a point of land to get a clearer view. I think the sounds they made
disturbed the animal. The sea being very calm, it seemed to slip back into deep
water; there was a great commotion under the surface and it disappeared like
a flash.

In my opinion, its speed must be terrific and it senses of
smell, sight and hearing developed to a very high degree. It would be terribly
hard to photograph, as its movements are different from anything I have ever
seen or heard of. I should say its length to be not less than 80 feet. There
were some logs on Strong Tide Island which gave me a good idea as to the size
of monster as it passed them. I took a measurement of one the next day which
was over 60 feet in length, and the creature overlapped it to a large extent
at each end. I put a newspaper on the spot where it rested its head and took
an observation from our previous point of vantage. The animal's was very much
larger than the double sheet of newspaper. The body must have been at least
5 feet thick, and was of a bluish-green color which shone in the sun like aluminum.
I could not determine the shape of the head, but it was much thicker than the
body.

I did not report my strange adventure except to one or two
trusted friends, for fear of ridicule and unbelief. About a year later, it fell
to Major W.H. Langley's lot to see the same or at any rate, a similar monster
in the vicinity also of Chatham island.

Within a week of publication of the Langley report, Archie
Willis, the news editor of the Victoria Daily times, had "a dozen letters from
other people who said they had seen the serpent, but had refrained from saying
anything about it for fear of ridicule." One such case was that of "Rusty" Beetle
of Port Angeles, Vancouver Island, who had seen the animal some years before.
It seemed the sea-serpent appeared close to "Rusty's" boat while he was fishing
off Dungeness Spit in Juan de Fuca Strait. The animal was serpentine and had
a body at least forty feet long. The head was like that of a camel or horse
and there was a mane. It swam slowly round the boat for five to ten minutes.
When "Rusted" came ashore he excitedly related the incident to the boat's owner,
who replied: "Rusty, it isn't smart to take a bottle along with you when you
go out fishing by yourself." Disappointed that the boat owner did not believe
him, "Rusty" then told the story to a local journalist he knew, but the response
was the same. "Rusty" had then decided to keep quiet about the matter.

In 1937 came the report of the monster seen by Mr. and Mrs.
Timeus, at Sunset Beach, twenty-two miles north of Vancouver. This monster turned
out to be a Northern Sea-elephant, one of the strangest and largest mammals
in the sea. A sea-serpent was seen, however, at Sunset bay later that year by
two brothers, acquaintances of the Timeuses, Fred and George Lawrence. The animal
had a head like a camel's, a small neck, and a body about the size of a large
barrel. It was between fifty and sixty feet long. A similar monster had been
seen nearly by several fishermen, who judged its length to be closer to one
hundred feet.

DRAGONS
WORLD WIDE

It has been said that there is probably no more fascinating
creature in the minds of Men than the dragon. Men have been describing it since
the beginning of civilization. The dragons, a creature resembling to a reptile
with wings and a long neck, was often depicted in stories and picture in Medieval
times and much earlier. Throughout the second world war, there was a little
mention of sea-serpents - it seem everyone was to busy fighting to notice them.
We have to wait the late 90' to see sighting, we must admit that the great development
in science and technology discourage many to move forward to tell their story.
Dragons have been spotted in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and British Columbia,
even if the witness was uncertain about the true size of the creature, she report
to have seen a giant creature about fifteen feet tall at the shoulder. After
telling to one of her best friend, she merely consider this as a joke.

The creature was in a beautiful shade of dark green and could
easily blended with trees as he been standing by them but the witness report
that he was perched on a rocky outcropping on the side of the mountain. ...He
was fanning his wings slightly, looking quite calmly into the valley below.
I had been hiking up this mountain, when the movement of his head caught my
eye. I had been this way before, and there was a group of trees on the cliff
where there had been none before. I did not believe what I had seen at first,
but the shape was too obvious, and he was parallel to me, about seven bus lengths
away. I was climbing up one rock outface, he was on another.

He was the most beautiful creature I had ever seen. His head
was long, with a large eye ridge and two smaller bumps with a triceratops-like
horn on his nose. At the back of his head were two large horns, jutting out
backwards, and two smaller horns below them. They were a greyish-white and caught
the light like dull silver. His forelegs were slightly smaller than his hind
legs and were gripping the edge of the cliff. He looked as though he were a
quadruped. He had slightly darker dorsal ridges running from between the longest
horns to about halfway down his tail.

As I stood there, gaping like a fish out of water, the dragon
turned and looked at me. He cocked his head to the side, almost like a bird,
then spread his enormous wings and vaulted off the cliff. He was absolutely
elegant in the air, flapping his wings several times before banking into a glide
and disappearing around the side of the mountain. My legs felt so weak that
I had to sit down. I have been camping in those mountains for over ten years,
and I have never seen anything to suggest that dragons might actually exist
there. But after that encounter I began to think about it. What better place
for a dragon to live than in the mountains? There are places in Banff and Jasper
that nobody has ever been to, and there are many elk and deer and possibly even
bears for it to feed on. Plenty of lakes, and the mountains themselves have
many hidden caves and the like.

A dragon perching at the very top of the mountain, especially
if they camouflage, could never be seen. I can't imagine my luck at actually
seeing one so close up and so low down in the alpine country. The place where
I saw him lies somewhere in the back country of Banff, beyond The Point, a fairly
well-known hike-in campground.

Another sight was reported to be seen the February 17, 1998
at Niagara falls Canada. She was visiting Niagara Falls to try and relax after
a trying week at graduate school. ...It was about 8:00 PM and I was with my
Fiancee who is the only other person who saw it. I have no tangible proof- only
and overwhelming feeling of being protected. The next week school went much
better and my attitude was much better. The mist rising from the Horseshoe falls
was in the shape of a dragon. It was a rather large, winged blue-grey dragon
formed by the mist of the falls. A truly rare and beautiful sight. It seems
without doubt that the vast space free from civilization is prefer to dragons
since most recent sighting have been reported these kind of condition like in
Canada.